If you'd read the thread properly you'd find I personally have no interest in MGS/SplinterCell type stealth games.  But I do have an interest in their sales. 

I think the game will come to the Xbox 360 eventually in some form, whether I want it too or not.

But yes, I'd like to know how much this game was worth in Sony's eyes. 

But if Hideo decided to jump through hoops in order to please a userbase less interested in the game, would it still be a good investment? With porting costs, several discs and poorer sound quality, it obviously becomes less profitable which makes me wonder if it would be a good investment to begin with. Hideo wouldn't allow it and you have to keep in mind he is a perfectionist. I wouldn't want and he wouldn't want to sacrifice audio quality therefore the game would still be on 8 discs. After all, this generation is all about hi-def and if developers are lowering their standards to meet system requirements then it almost defeats the purpose of creating more powerful hardware. As for languages on the same discs, I leave you with this quote, "Unfortunately because of disc space, we don’t have the space to include other languages, other voice over files for the respective versions. So the Japanese version’s not gonna have English voiceover, and the North American and European versions won’t have Japanese voiceover." - Hideo Kojima

1 reason why it would take a x360 mgs4 version more than 5 dvd9s.

over 90 min of high def cinematic cut scenes. hahahahahahahahaha!!!!

i dont believe that one bit. i bet your as courious as hell about this game. even if its not your cup of tea, its hype alone probably has you squirming in your seat to find out what all the hype is abot.

and yes, it will probably be released in some form pm tje x360. it will be called, the mgs4 collection coz of all the dvds it would need :P

OT: i can tell you this, this game, for sony is worth more than dmc4, so4 and gta4 exclusivity combined. seeing as they were able to keep mgs4 exclusive while they let the other three be ehither multi plat or x360 exlusive.

- Half the reason the PS3 "needs" the Blu-Ray capacity is because the read speed is so slow

Whoa now... wait a minute. If I have a slow hard drive, I just have to make it bigger and I should be able to transfer more stuff off it quicker, right? I mean, according to that logic, the more disc space you have, the faster it transfers data... right? I could just duplicate some information on different platters, and voila! Ultra maga fast transfer speeds!

The only reason data is duplicated is because of SEEK times, NOT transfer speed. In case you didn't know what Seek time is, it's the time it takes the laser to get to the data requested. On Blu-Ray, since it's more compact, it could theoretically have a faster seek time as the laser doesn't have to travel as far to find the data. On the flip side of this, it's rotational speed is slower, but again, more compact data means it doesn't have to spin as fast to buffer that data.

On average, the PS3 BDROM and the 12X 360 DVD are about the same speed. The 360 has it by a hair on average, and they have to use the stuffing techniques to out large data on the outside tracks to speed up reads. The only reason you'd have duplicate data on the BD is to avoid seeking as much as possible. If you have the space, use it.

I'd argue that taking out this redundancy in BD only to cram it onto a DVD would actually make the load times on the 360 incredibly long since you can't "cheat" the drive and would have to constantly seek for data that is normally duplicated.

Next time think before you regurgitate crap.

I disagree with much of what you've said here, particularly you ignoring the fact that the PS3's data seek times (and yes, they are seek times I acknowledge I misspoke, though its transfer speed IS slower from memory?) only come close to DVD9's when certain packets of data are being used.  "Average" is a very misleading concept to adopt in this case.

Nonetheless, there are numerous threads open about Blu-Ray disk read and seek times, please use one of them if you wish to argue the toss, as this thread is about Sony paying for MGS4. 

Nonetheless, there are numerous threads open about Blu-Ray disk read and seek times, please use one of them if you wish to argue the toss, as this thread is about Sony paying for MGS4. 

Believe what you like.  I'll eventually buy a PS3 for Versus, and even though it will be dirt cheap by then, I still wont be picking up MGS4.

As for your last comment, its interesting you said its worth more than exclusivity on three games Sony has ALREADY lost exclusivity on.  In the case of Star Ocean 4, the PS3 may not see the title period.  

Seriously, putting MGS4 anywhere near the ballpark of GTAIV in importance is ridiculous.